Charles Pomeroy Stone

Charles Pomeroy Stone (30 September 1824-24 January 1887) was a US Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War and an Egyptian Army Lieutenant-General.

Biography
Charles Pomeroy Stone was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1824, and he graduated from West Point in 1845 and served as a US Army lieutenant during the Mexican-American War, raising an American flag at the summit of the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City. In 1856, he resigned from the army due to low pay and became a banker in San Francisco, California, later surveying Sonora from 1857 to 1860 and serving as US Consul at Guaymas from 1858 to 1859. As the American Civil War was about to break out, he became the first volunteer officer mustered into the Union Army, doing so on 1 January 1861 as Inspector of the Washington DC Militia. He suppressed the Knights of the Golden Circle's coup attempt before becoming a Brigadier-General in May, leading a brigade at the First Battle of Bull Run. He earned the ire of abolitionists for complying with Maryland and federal law by returning escaped slaves to their masters, becoming rivals with John Albion Andrew and Charles Sumner. Stone also earned criticism when he was blamed for the Union defeat at the Battle of Ball's Bluff. On 8 February 1862, he was arrested by George B. McClellan after he was accused of communicating with the Confederates, and he was imprisoned with secessionists at Fort Lafayette without ever being charged with any crime. On 27 February 1863, he was cleared of wrongdoing and served as Nathaniel P. Banks' chief of staff during the Red River Campaign and as a brigade commander at the Siege of Petersburg. In 1870, William T. Sherman recommended him to the Egyptian Army, and he served as its chief of staff from 1870 to 1883, and he implemented a general staff, expanded the Khedivate of Egypt's boundaries, and stayed with Tewfik Pasha in Alexandria during the British bombardment of the city. In 1883, he returned to the United States and worked as an engineer, and, in 1884, he created the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. He died in New York City in 1887 at the age of 62.